Calixt II.
Calixt II. ( Latin Calixtus or Callistus II ), originally Guido of Burgundy or Guido of Vienne (* around 1060 in Quingey ; † December 13, 1124 in Rome ), was Pope from 1119 .
Life
He was a younger son of Count Wilhelm I of Burgundy . Like his brother Hugo († November 13, 1101), who became Archbishop of Besançon in 1086, he embarked on a spiritual career and became Archbishop of Vienne in 1088 , whose territory belonged to the Holy Roman Empire . For the secular rule over the lands of his archbishopric he was in this respect feudal man of the Roman-German emperor Heinrich V.
After the death of Pope Gelasius II , he was elected Pope on February 2, 1119 and took the name Calixt II . In April 1121 he succeeded in arresting, deposed and imprisoned the antipope Gregory VIII in Sutri .
On September 23, 1122 he also settled the investiture dispute with Emperor Heinrich V through the Worms Concordat . The emperor accepted the church's right to choose and appoint bishops and abbots (so-called investiture ). In return, the Pope accepted that the election of the German bishops and abbots was to be negotiated in the presence of imperial deputies, and that the elected should only receive his secular sovereignty through subsequent enfeoffment from the emperor.
In 1120 he canonized David of Menevia and in 1123 Conrad of Constance . He died in Rome in 1124 and was buried in the Lateran Basilica.
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Calixt II. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 859-860.
- Georg Gresser : The synods and councils in the time of the reform papacy in Germany and Italy by Leo IX. to Calixt II. 1049-1123. F. Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-506-74670-7 .
- Beate Schilling: Guido von Vienne. Pope Calixt II. Hahn, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-5445-5 .
- Werner Maleczek : Calixtus II. , In: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Volume 2, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , Sp. 1398.
- Theodor Schieffer : Calixtus II. , In: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche Volume 2. Freiburg 1958, Sp. 884.
- Mary Stroll: Calixtus II, 1119-1124. A pope born to rule. Brill, Leiden 2004, ISBN 9-0041-3987-7 . ( Review )
Web links
- Literature by and about Calixt II. In the catalog of the German National Library
- Guy de Bourgogne at fmg.ac (English)
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Gontard |
Archbishop of Vienne 1088–1119 |
Peter I. |
Gelasius II |
Pope 1119-1124 |
Honorius II. |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Calixt II. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kalixt II .; Guido of Vienne; Guido of Burgundy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pope (1119–1124) |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1060 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Quingey |
DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1124 |
PLACE OF DEATH | Rome |